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Memorial Day weekend: Patriotic programs and activities planned across the area

Floral Haven and Memorial Park cemeteries will again host their popular long-running Memorial Day events. A newer event, PatriotFest, will return to west Tulsa for a fourth year.

 

Will Rogers Says

"Everybody likes to make a dollar his way, but if he finds he is not allowed to make it his way, why he is not going to overlook the chance of making it your way.” — Dec. 15, 1933

 

Tulsa man accused of raping, strangling mother of his newborn child

Trenton Dean, who had been previously charged with domestic assault and battery dating back to 2014 according to court records, was taken into custody on Wednesday.

 

'Competitiveness came out in everyone': Grove tops area schools in the Gathering Place’s Reading Tree Challenge

The Union elementary school's 575 students read 121,307 books. The Reading Tree Challenge tasked Tulsa County kids with reading 2 million books before late spring or early summer 2018. The current tally is 1,657,394 books

 

Police investigating possible threat against Broken Arrow High School

Broken Arrow police are investigating the validity of a recent threat made at Broken Arrow High School.

 

Catch-and-release: Grand Lake angler lands a white-tailed deer fawn

Catch-and-release fishing took on a new meaning for longtime Grand Lake angler Jeff Williams Wednesday evening as he plucked a deer fawn from the waters of the lake and returned her to a spot where a doe, watching from above,…

 

Bicyclist dies after hitting parked truck on Broken Arrow street

The man rode his bike into a parked truck in the 7700 block of East El Paso Street on Monday evening and died from his injuries on Thursday.

 

Bob Dylan international symposium set for Tulsa in 2019

Scheduled for May 30 to June 3, 2019 — and featuring panels, lectures, exhibitions and performances — the event is expected to draw scholars, critics, musicians, fans and experts from around the world.

 

Conditions favorable again Thursday for pop-up thunderstorms

Conditions are favorable again Thursday for scattered thunderstorms in Tulsa and northeast Oklahoma, the National Weather Service in Tulsa said.

 

Four recommendations each made to rename Chouteau, Columbus elementaries

Columbus and Chouteau elementary schools, like Robert E. Lee Elementary and Andrew Jackson elementary and a vacant lot named for Henry Ford, had their names rescinded by the Tulsa School Board in recent months.

 

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